50 Ways to Starve the Beast

A term coined in 1985 by an unnamed staffer of the Reagan administration was “Starve the Beast”. This referred to a fiscally conservative political strategy to cut government spending by paying less in taxes. So, in the original sense, “the Beast” was the government, and people were to starve the beast by spending less and using loopholes, therefore paying less in taxes.

These days the Beast has a lot more tentacles than just the government. The system now consists of the government and all aspects of Big Business. Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Food, Big Banking and Big Oil, to name a few. It seems that now it’s the Beast doing the starving, as small businesses close because they can’t compete with Wal-Mart, the family farm is on it’s way out because it can’t compete with the huge, subsidized Monsanto mega-farms, people are going bankrupt because they can’t pay the outrageous medical bills…

Perhaps it’s time for another financial revolution – one where people group together and use the power of the boycott to starve all the arms of this Beast that would swallow us whole. If we vote with our dollars, eventually there will, of a necessity, be a paradigm shift that returns us to simpler days, when families that were willing to work hard could make a living without selling their souls to the corporate monoliths.

Every penny you spend with small local businesses is a penny that the big box stores won’t have. Everything that you buy secondhand or barter for is an item on which you won’t pay sales tax. Disassociate yourself completely with “the system” that is making Western civilization broke, overweight and unhealthy. Starve the Beast by taking as many of these steps as possible…

At the holidays, focus on activities and traditions instead of gifts. Go for a walk or drive through the neighborhood to look at lights, get into your PJs and watch a special movie together on Christmas Eve and make certain treats that can always be expected

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like how you think, i’ve been doing alot of these things for the past 5 years when i got in tune with how the “system” works

Baba Bombay Beetle from London

Ah! But what if instead of chasing thieves Big Law decides to criminalise many of the above activities and issue fixed penalties on these noble yet ‘taxable’ deeds? They will.

Baba Bombay Beetle from London

Take for example, after stealing, yes it is stealing, your guns, they then insist you need a liscence to own an axe. Therefore most must buy chopped wood from Wallmart. They will.

Row Weil

Agreed – there needs to be another side of this article: How to unwind tyrannical policies from the grassroots up.

The Arizona Patriot

great ideas. Take money from the Zionists. Oh and by the way they will never take my weapons. The bullet made men equal 500 yrs ago. I will live on my feet rather than die on my knees. DEATH TO THE NWO!!!

MOLON LABE

Baba Bombay Beetle from London

I’m not dreaming. When I tell people it is illegal to collect rainwater in a butt in many american states they think I am making it all up. Why doesn’t the media bleeding well INFORM us of laws we need to know about? I don’t mind being fined ¬£60 for dropping litter, I KNOW its bad. But telling my son to take vitamins, I never knew was practicing medicine without a liscence.
We all hate petty laws but please inform us before the need to prosecute arises.

amanda

The lotteries for sure. an i hate to sound mean but big charities. i stick with local volounteer groups. I used to donate stuff big time as well, but when i got over the shy to ask family and friends if they wanted old stuff, i was surprised how many of them were grateful and admitted to having a hard time keeping up.Id ask everyone to look around at the nearest and dearest and see if they are struggling silently. god bless

http://T Evie

Use a library to borrow books, but they do track what you read. Purchasing books at yard sales and swap marts are not tracked.
Church sales are the best with the cheapest prices.
Some yard sales want an arm and leg for junkie Chinese goods.
Goodwill is getting expensive and junkie.

http://none Abdul

Emmigrate to a saner country.

http://T Evie

A saner country? Exactly where, Cyprus? The elite intend to take all and put everyone under a system. That is how they make money.

Stephanie

Starve the beast, breastfeed all the babies!

Bob Marshall

Proverbs 29:2 ‘When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn.”

http://T Evie

The beast is already starving. Certain corporations have to resort to tricky accounting to make a profit appear.
No brain science here. With most making less than $20,000. Purchasing shoddy 3rd world goods is the last thing on their minds.
No banks and corporations we will not go into debt so you can live in mansions, purchase private jets and say the solution is for people to work for less.

yipeee ki yeaa!

Bought a 800 $ motorcycle for daily commuting (50mpg), have an SUV loaded up ready to go as a stand by. Live in modest 900 sqft home 2 acres with fruit trees berrys and garden.. Inet and SW my only source of info and entertainment.
DHS billions of rouinds and 2500 rubber tire tanks

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